Look for Me in the Whirlwind @ Brooklyn Borough Hall

Marcus Garvey - Look For Me in the Whirlwind tells the life story of this controversial leader by using a wealth of material from the Garvey movement-written documents, film and photographs-to reveal what motivated a poor Jamaican to set up an international organization for the African diaspora, what led to his early successes, and why he died lonely and forgotten. Among the most powerful sequences in the film are articulate, fiery interviews with the men and women whose parents joined the Garvey movement more than 80 years ago. Together they reveal how revolutionary Garvey's ideas were to a new generation of African Americans,West Indians and Africans and how he invested hundreds of thousands of black men and women with a new-found sense of racial pride.
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Lest We Forget: September 11, 2001

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Blue Alpha Exhibition: Jacqueline Bishop

Jacqueline Bishop

At its core my work addresses the issues of home, ancestry, family, connectivity and belonging. As someone who has lived longer outside of my birthplace of Jamaica, than I have lived on the island, I am acutely aware of what it means to be simultaneously an insider and an outsider. This ability to see things from multiple psychological and territorial spaces has led to the development of a particular lens that allows me to view things from a distance. In addition, because I am a fiction writer and poet as well as a visual artist the text and narrative are significant parts of my artistic practice. My work integrates the mediums of painting, drawing and photography.

I use a process of photomontage to recreate the past in an ongoing series of ethereal and transcendent “Childhood Memories” photographs where characters are often literally split between heaven and earth. For me, the world is a series of superimposed images and in the Childhood Memories series I am making montages of a childhood partly remembered and wholly constructed. I use archival footage that I collage with images that I take on my trips back to Jamaica. These photographs introduce us to a world of family, belonging and connection. In a sense these photographs represent a lost garden of Eden.

My most recent work is the “Babylon” and “Zion” series of paintings. These paintings are about the Rastafarian ideas of Babylon being a place of captivity and oppression while Zion symbolizes a utopian place of unity and peace. In the Babylon paintings I use lyrics from songs and poems to create text-based paintings on the notion of exile leading up to the “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” paintings in which I use popular dancehall posters to recreate the inner city Babylonian “walls” of Kingston. For the Zion series I employ largely monotone paintings to recreate this symbolic paradise. I use a distinctly Rastafarian iconography by employing Rastafarian colors in these paintings. Glitter is present in these works not only as a representation of the paradise that Rastafarians seek in the Biblical homeland of Zion but also as a commentary on the bling and glitter culture that has enveloped much of Jamaican society.

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The Literary Hang 2012

By Juliet Emanuel


In 2012 the Literary Hang emphasizes publishing. Self publishers, small presses and larger companies are invited to participate.  This format allows all areas of publishing to display and promote their writers and their works. 

It also allows aspiring writers to explore any publishing options present on that day.  This event is proposed as one that promotes the creativity of Guyanese expression, in particular, and the Caribbean Diaspora, at large.


As part of the activities for the day publishers, accepted for The Literary Hang, may present their contracted writers during the day at their individual spaces. In addition, there will be a public reading by invited writers during the day.  


Part of that program will be an interview with the actors from the hugely successful 2011 adaptation of C. L. R. James' Minty Alley. All publishers will be responsible for the delivery, set up, sales and removal of all their own goods. GCA will not store any material or be responsible for any sales.


All genres of the published word, except pornography, will be considered for inclusion in the general activities of the day.  Magazines, graphic readers, e-books, children's literature, cookbooks, poetry, plays, videos and CD's of performances, novels, short stories and other prose are expected to form part of the offerings on display and for sale. This event is open to all ages and children are especially welcome.


There will be refreshments for sale.

The date of the Literary Hang is Saturday, June 9, 2012, at the Flatbush Reformed Church at the corner of Flatbush and Church Aves.  It will begin at 1 and end at 7 pm.

Interested parties must contact The Literary Hang Committee, Juliet Emanuel, Chair by e-mail, jaemanuel@cs.com or by calling Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc. The Secretariat at 718 209 5207, Claire A. Goring, 


Cultural Director.
The Literary Hang (TM) is a production of Guyana Cultural Association of 
New York, Inc.


The Literary Hang 2012 will be a gala celebration of the craft of writing and the book.





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A Salute to Caribbean Cultural Theatre

I couldn't let the year end without a salute to Caribbean Cultural Theatre and the fine work they are doing in New York. These are just a few of the writers whose work they have showcased and which the community has supported by attending and buying the books of these Caribbean writers. It feels good to have been a part of this year's season.

The Caribbean Cultural Theatre is dedicated to presenting work of the highest artistic merit that honours a balanced rendering of Caribbean culture and the Caribbean-American experience.

Address

138 South Oxford Street, Suite 4E

Brooklyn, NY 11217

Email

Phone:  1 718.783.8345      

caribbeantheatre@yahoo.com

Facebook: facebook.com/caribbean.cultural.theatre

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